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Model of the "Planet" Locomotive

1830 (original); 1967 (model)

Skaife's Pistolgraph Camera

1858

Lord Kelvin's 'ironclad' marine galvanometer, 1865-1866

1865-1866

Model of Grew's locomotive for ice

circa 1861

Thompson's Revolver Camera

1862

Thomson's mirror marine galvanometer, 1858

1858

One of the First Rechargeable Batteries, about 1860

1860

Thomson's mirror galvanometer, 1858

1858

Cast iron plaque from Queenstown Road Bridge, Battersea, London, 1865

1865

Ramsbottom speed indicator

1860

seal die - Colne Valley and Halstead Railway

1856

Wivenhoe & Brightlingsea Railway

1861

seal die - Bishop Stortford, Dunmow and Braintree railway

1861

Mirror galvanometer for the transatlantic telegraph, 1858

1858

Letter opener with calendar and map, 1893-1894

1893-4

Replica of the first Morse telegraph, 1835

1934

Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

Early binaural stethoscope

1861-1866

Glass pharmacy storage bottle

1864

Longcase clock, Stephenson & Co's Locomotive Works

1857

John Ellis

1858

Specimen of telegraph cable laid in Birmingham in 1856

1856

Sample of gutta percha insulated cable, 1863-7

1863-7

Atlantic cable specimen, 1865

1865

Sample of deep-sea section of first transatlantic cable, 1857-1858

1857-1858

Sample of deep-sea section of first transatlantic cable, 1857-1858

1857-1858

Letter written by William Thomson (Lord Kelvin), 1858

1858-03-02

Sample of submarine telegraph cable, 1866

1866

Sample of the first transatlantic cable, 1857-1858

1857-1858

London & North Western Railway steam locomotive 'Pet' 0-4-0ST

1865

Dagron microphotographic camera

circa 1860

England and her Soldiers

1859

Novelty model

1955; 1830

Lid for Self Cleansing carbon filter

circa 1861

Wheatstone's portable ABC telegraph, 1858

1858

Signal Block Bell, South Eastern Railway

1862

Child's ceramic alphabet bowl, North Staffordshire Railway

1860

Replica of Daguerre-Giroux camera

1839 (original); circa 1988 (replica)

Paddlewheel used by James Joule

c1860

earthenware commemorative plate displaying the company seal of the Hull & Hornsea Railway

1860

Telegraph block instrument; Walker's

1865

Larmuth Loom

circa 1860

Model of a Power Loom for Plain Weaving

1857

Replica of Morse's second model of telegraphy apparatus, 1934

1934

Sample of transatlantic cable, 1865-66

1865-1866

Facsimile 1865 homemade telephone, 1888

1888

Whitehouse's induction coil, 1858

1858

Silver thimble, used to pass a current through the 1866 Transatlantic cable, 1860-1866

1860-1866

Neolithic flint scraper

4000-2001 BCE

Portrait of Isaac Newton

1862-1863